US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on July 21 for "Rearward white line inference device, target recognition device, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,710, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Rearward white line inference device, target recognition device, and method" was invented by Hitoshi Hayakawa (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kento Kagimoto (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a rearward white line inference device, a target recognition device, and a method capable of inferring a rearward white line with high accuracy. A rearward white line inference device includes: a white line detection unit that detects a white line ahead of a host vehicle; an azimuth-relative-to-white-line generation unit that obtai...